The Matrix Quotes: 35 Iconic Lines from Neo, Morpheus, and the Others

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Have you ever wondered which The Matrix quotes made the biggest impact on popular culture? From "red pill or blue pill" to "there is no spoon," these famous lines have become part of our everyday language. Even people who haven't watched the movies often use Matrix quotes without knowing where they came from.

The Matrix movies tell the story of a future where machines control the world and humans live in a fake computer reality. The first Matrix movie came out in 1999 and changed how people think about reality and technology. Its mix of philosophy, action, and special effects made it different from other science fiction films.

After the huge success of the first movie, The Matrix franchise grew into three more films. Each new movie added its own memorable Matrix quotes to the series. The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, released in 2003, continued the tradition of powerful dialogues. Even the newest film, The Matrix Resurrections (2021), brought fresh and meaningful quotes that fans love to share.

In this article, we will share some of the best Matrix quotes you can find in the series. We gathered these quotes from various sources, Thursday (23/1/2025).

1. "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus

2. "Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus

3. "What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." - Morpheus

4. "No, Neo, I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to." - Morpheus

7. "Never send a human to do a machine's job." - Agent Smith

8. "I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it." - Morpheus

9. "He's beginning to believe." - Morpheus

10. "You may have spent the last few years looking for me, but I have spent my entire life looking for you." - Morpheus

11. "Stop trying to hit me and hit me!" - Morpheus

12. "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy." - Morpheus

1. "Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it." - The Architect

2. "Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without." - Merovingian

3. "But, as you well know, appearances can be deceiving, which brings me back to the reason why we're here. We're not here because we're free. We're here because we're not free. There is no escaping reason; no denying purpose. Because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist." - Agent Smith

4. "That's how it is with people - nobody cares how it works as long as it works." - Councillor Hamann

5. "This is a war and we are soldiers. Death can come for us at any time, in any place. Now consider the alternative. What if I am right? What if the prophecy is true? What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?" - Morpheus

6. "I like to be reminded this city survives because of these machines. These machines keep us alive, while other Machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? The power to give life, and the power to end it." - Councillor Hamann

7. "I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me." - Morpheus

8. "Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness." - The Architect

1. "Karma's a word. Like "love." A way of saying "what I am here to do." I do not resent my karma - I'm grateful for it. Grateful for my wonderful wife, for my beautiful daughter. They are gifts. And so I do what I must do to honor them." - Rama Kandra

2. "Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming, I see the darkness spreading. I see death." - The Oracle

3. Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why, why? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know?! Is it freedom?! Or truth?! Perhaps peace?! Could it be for love?! Illusions, Mr. Anderson! Vagaries of perception! Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose! And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson! You must know it by now! You can't win! It's pointless to keep fighting! Why, Mr. Anderson?! Why?! WHY DO YOU PERSIST?!

Neo: Because I choose to.

4. The Architect: You played a very dangerous game.

The Oracle: Change always is.

5. Seraph: Did you always know?

The Oracle: Oh, no. No, I didn't. But I believed... I believed.

1. "Quietly yearning for what you don't have, while dreading losing what you do. Desire and fear." - The Analyst

2. "You know the difference between us, Tom? Anyone could have been you, whereas I've always been anyone." - Smith

3. "The choice is an illusion. You already know what you have to do." - Bugs

4. "Nothing comforts anxiety like a little nostalgia." - Morpheus

5. "What if I can't be what I once was?" - Neo

6. "I never believed I was the one. But she did. She believed in me. It's my turn to believe in her." - Neo

7. "At some point, I think I gave up searching for something real." - Neo

8. "Nothing can breed violence like scarcity." - Niobe

9. "Not all seek to control. Just as not all wish to be free." - Morpheus

10. "That's the thing about stories; They never really end, do they?" - Smith